YOURHOSTNAME would of course be replaced with whatever you want, and it doesn’t have to be all caps.

Now it looks like this: ‘will@1405[~]$’ – still pretty lame, I know, but it’s relevant (to me – I swear!) and better than unknown…

scutil, as it turns out, is a utility that let’s you manage system configuration parameters. I’m not sure whether or not it will come in handy in the future, but so far it has helped me solve one small thing!